Quotes About Threat

It would be hard to overestimate the degree of outrage that the threat of losing their tax-advantaged status on account of their segregationism provoked.

I know you've dated now and then. I know, because I considered having any man who went out with you shot. Thought about it quite seriously, in fact. - Corbett Lazlo

A gunshot is the loudest sound in the universe. Especially if the bullet is coming at you.

America was armed to the teeth and no one was safe.

Who's going to rob us? A crackhead crab? A jellyfish junkie?

Are you threatening me?" He looked completely outraged at such a thing. "You bet your incredibly attractive and probably hard enough to bounce a quarter off ass I am!" she snapped back. An indescribable look flitted across his face. "You are the most irreverent woman I've ever met." "And you're the handsomest man I've ever seen in my life, but that doesn't mean I'm going to lick you!" she yelled.

That's right. Tomorrow's the day I try to kill you." "Goodnight Daddy." "Goodnight, son.

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man.

Nerves is just a case of which end of a six-gun you happen to be lookin' at.

Drinkers hate to lose one of the gang. It's an implied threat that maybe they might be next.

S]he had difficulty crediting it could really happen in her own lifetime. She knew this was exactly how people would feel just before the real apocalypse, that nearly everyone who'd faced some intrusive threat to their everyday existence – war, revolution, genocide, purges, disaster – had faced it with the firm conviction that things like this just didn't happen or didn't happen here or didn't happen to people like them.

What's that?' The one who'd hassled Kohn turned at a noise. He found his cheek meeting a gun muzzle. Muffled sounds came from all around. 'Your worst nightmare,' said a voice from the darkness, about a metre away. 'A yid kid with an AK and attitude .'

The] concentration of our food supply is also a national security threat. A few dedicated terrorists with a crude map could, in a few days, wipe out most of the food supply of this country. We were much less vulnerable when farm animals were dispersed all over the country.

That's my lesson in courage from Cambodia. The larger the threat, the more profound the doubts, the deeper you have to dig to find faith and conquer your fears.

I glanced over at him warily. "Don't start getting any ideas about her. The last time someone took a fancy to Kate, things went very badly for him." "What happened?" "He got shot." "You shot him?" "Well, no, but he did get shot.

This will emphasize the commitment of my administration and strengthen world-wide opinion about the military, both here and in Russia, that we can mobilize our forces to pursue the elimination of this dangerous threat from outer space," Clinton responded.

This was a new menace that threatened them, something that they couldn't explain; and so, naturally, it aroused within them superstitious fear.

States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.

So end the Miller fantasies. Their melancholy outcome is due largely to the fact that they break off at the critical moment when the threat of invasion by the unconscious is plainly apparent.

Hypothermia was curling back its lips and exposing its sharp teeth.

One should always be afraid of danger." - Matthew Shardlake, Pg. 29

entrenched companies are often unexpectedly dethroned by start-ups that begin with cheap offerings at the low end of the market, but then, over time, improve their cheap products just enough to begin to steal high-end market share. Grove recognized that Intel faced this threat from low-end processors produced by upstart companies like AMD and Cyrix.

what if our murderer viewed his current work as just that sort of protection? Could Sara shift her point of view enough to grasp that every victim and situation leading up to a murder resonated within the killer to a distant experience of threat and violence and led him for reasons that we had not yet fully defined to take angry measures in his own defense?